Demand for disaster derivatives is surging as insurers seek alternatives to scarce reinsurance and expensive catastrophe bonds, with the forthcoming...
Bermuda News
Validus Holdings Ltd slightly sweetened its hostile bid for IPC Holdings Ltd. to $1.69 billion Monday, in its latest attempt...
Connecticut-based insurance consulting firm Conning & Co. has named Stephen W. Keep as director. An experienced marketing executive in U.S....
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services issued a statement that its ratings and outlook on Germany’s Allianz SE (AZSE), currently ‘AA’/Stable/’A-1+’,...
A good old-fashioned fight has developed between Bermuda-based Validus Holdings and the Max Capital Group over the latter’s planned amalgamation...
Bermuda-based Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. announced that Montpelier Syndicate 5151 will begin underwriting marine insurance business in August 2009. “The...
The Bermuda-based Max Capital Group Ltd. Has won a skirmish in its fight with Validus Holdings over the acquisition of...
The Bermuda-based Catlin Group announced from its London offices that the “three explorers conducting the Catlin Arctic Survey returned from...
Validus Holdings has issued a statement in response to the decision by the Supreme Court of Bermuda not to expedite...
As Insurance Journal prepares for another Top 100 Independent Property/Casualty Agency List, to be published in our Aug. 3, 2009,...